A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
[Dedicated to G. M. Marston]
Pale as the night that pales
In the dawn’s pearl-pure pavillion,
I wait for thee, with my dove’s breast
Shuddering, a god its bitter guest-
Have I not gilded my nails
And painted my lips with vermillion ?
Am I not wholly stript
Of the deeds and thoughts that obscure thee?
I wait for thee, my soul distraught
With aching for some nameless naught
In its most arcane crypt-
Am I not fit to endure thee?
Girded about the paps
With a golden girdle of glory,
Dost thou wait me, thy slave who am,
As a wolf lurks for a strayed white lamb?
The chain of the stars snaps,
And the deep of night is hoary!
Thou whose mouth is a flame
With its seven-edged sword proceeding,
Come ! I am writhing with despair
Like a snake taken in a snare,
Moaning thy mystical name
Till my tongue is torn and bleeding!
Have I not gilded my nails
And painted my lips with vermillion?
Yea ! thou art I; the deed awakes,
Thy lightening strikes; thy thunder breaks
Wild as the bride that wails
In the bridegroom’s plumed pavillion!
A few random poems:
- Mediums. by Walt Whitman
- A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
- Labels
- Федор Тютчев – Как неожиданно и ярко
- Robert Burns: Meg O’ The Mill : Another Version
- Mother by Sachin Yadav (Pen Name: Rahul Nachhiketa)
- Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet by Tony Hoagland
- Never Again by Stevie Smith
- Splenda by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Олег Бундур – На высоком берегу
- Otho The Great – Act IV poem – John Keats poems
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- Sonnet. Written In Answer To A Sonnet By J. H. Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- I am only the house of your beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Dreaming of Li Po by Tu Fu
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Lord Roberts by Rudyard Kipling
- Loot by Rudyard Kipling
- Lichtenberg by Rudyard Kipling
- L’Envoi by Rudyard Kipling
- La Nuit Blanche by Rudyard Kipling
- Kitchener’s School by Rudyard Kipling
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Justice by Rudyard Kipling
- Jubal and Tubal Cain by Rudyard Kipling
- In the Neolithic Age by Rudyard Kipling
- In the Matter of One Compass by Rudyard Kipling
- In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling
- If by Rudyard Kipling
- I Keep Six Honest… by Rudyard Kipling
- Hymn Before Action by Rudyard Kipling
- Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack by Rudyard Kipling
- Helen all Alone by Rudyard Kipling
- Harp Song of the Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling
- Half-Ballad of Waterval by Rudyard Kipling
- Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
